The clarion., 1887-04-13

held the helm the pluck and patriotism
OF the gentlemen idiersn once more pre-
vailed; and Columbia took into her embrace
the young giant of whom il has been
graphically said, III Texas were laid on
the face Of Europe, with Its head resting
on the mountains of Norway, one palm
covering London and the other Warsaw, Ii
would stretch across the Kingdom of Dem
mark, across the Empires of Germany and
Austria, across Northern Italy, and bathe
Its feet in the Mediterranean Il is capa-
bic OF producing IL, 100000 bales OF cotton
and still have q cattle range left larger
than the whole State of New York. This
war, prosecuted by the enervated, non-
progressive "overseers,n gathered into the
| national domain, also, the Territory OF
New Mexico, itself larger than the King
dom of Great Britain and Ireland; extended
opened 10 the world the golden gates OF
California.
Mr.. Tillett, in his haste to elevate the
New South by degrading the Old, forgets
that most of the representative men of the
New South, her Senators, Congressmen,
Cabinet Officers, Governors, Judges, jurists,
| leading journalists, College professors,
eminent divines and successful men of
business in every line, were born and
educated under the course of slavery"
There is no New South. The term is a mis-
nomer and myth. i is simply phrase
costume in which old preiudices mas4ue-
rade through modern prints, seeking to
pervert the education of Southern children
into the conviction that their ancestors, ii
not criminal, were little more than race
of "idlers." blunderers, blockheads and
| failures. But the present or future gener-
ations viii never find reason TO be ashamed
of the brain work of the Old South. The
literature left US by Washington, jefferson,
| Madison, Monroe, Calhoun, Stephens and
Jefferson Davis, will stand as monuments
OF wisdom and models of classical lore,
when the mountains of literary lumber,
accumulated by professional book
makers, shall have crumbled into the dust
OF ages. In all the departments of Gov
| ernment, civil and military in law, itera-
ture and science, while the South has
boasted no great army OF writers, whose
wits are the price of bread, she has fur.
nished the minds productive of the grand
est results to the country and the world
| When a prolific little animal, vain of her
numerous progeny, twitted the honess for
nursing only one, the noble beast replied
"Only one, but Il is a lion"
| 1t is the char racter and the magnitude oi
thought, and not the abundance of think
ing, that cut the mighty and everlasting
mind and progress.
| The naval and military cadets from the
South have had no superiors as a class
The culture and intelligence in the ranks
| OF the Confederate army, were unsurpassed
by that of any of the great armies of the
world, hence the exalted esprit de corps
which so often rendered the Confederate
soldiers more than equal to an odds oi
three to one in the splendid columns of the
| Federal army. Where is there an example
OF modern seamanship that will compare
with the daring and brilliant cruise OF
| Admiral Semmes, who, with single ship,
swept from the seas the commerce of a
| great nation? Who was it that mapped
, the geography of the seas, explained their
secret phenomena, blazed out, on the
trackless ocean the shortest and safest
| highways for the commerce of the world
| by his wind and Current Charts" and his
Sailing Directions" saving to the United
States millions of dollars annually on out
going tonnage alone? Matthew f. Maury,
a Southern man to the core, and, by com
| mon consent of all nations, accorded the
proud title of Philosopher of the Seas"
| Where is there parallel to Audubon, the
Naturalist and Ornithologist of the world
| Chloroform, that has robbed the surgeons
| knife of all its terrors, was first applied by
Southern physician. The two greatest
eras in surgery for the last two centuries,
| in fact two OF the greatest in surgical his
tory, We're marked by two Southern ply
sicians, Ephraim Mcdowell, of Kentucky.
and j. Marion Sims of Alabama. In
their respective branches the surgery of
the whole enlightened world recognizes
and follows tne leadership of these famous
men. Ben Hill was the only man in
America who ever made million dollars,
as the direct product of his brain, indie
pendent of investment, or speculation in
addition to which he gave fifteen of his
best years to active public service. The
only approximation TO his record was that
of another Southern lawyer, Judah p.
Benz amin, who went to England after the
meridian Of life and became the leading
jurist in that land of great lawyers, having
on his docket, at one time, half the appeal
cases in the Kingdom. Does this order of
men spring from race of '.idlers," whose
aspirations and energies have been emas-
culated by the Course of slavery ?" But
memory wearies with enumeration, and
we only suggest that Southern parents
should look to the education of their boys
and act with due circumspection, when
the friends of education come to US "bear-
ing gifts" in the shape of endowments for
Southern Universities, where children are
to be taught to forget history and to blush
for the character and the deeds of their
ancestors. B. F. WARD.
Winona, Miss.